Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 157

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:68FE3835-2401-43A7-96E2-CF26532F7A60
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6C63ECB2-852E-69DA-F454-809871895DC5
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826
status

Treatment

Subgenus Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826 View in CoL View at ENA

Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826: 17. Type species: Carabus elevatus Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.

Diversity.

Nine species in North America (seven species) and the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico (two species).

Identification.

Van Dyke (1938) reviewed the species and provided a key for their identification. One new species was described subsequently by Allen and Carlton in 1988.